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Professor Paul Ortiz is\xa0Associate Professor of History at the University of Floridaand is Director of the\xa0Samuel Proctor Oral History Program. \xa0Professor Ortiz has published and taught in the fields of African American history, Latino Studies, the African Diaspora, Social Movement Theory, U.S. History, U.S. South, labor, and documentary studies. He currently works with students in these and related fields.\nHe has written several books including\xa0Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida from Reconstruction to the Bloody Election of 1920\xa0received the 1990 Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Book Prize.\nHis latest book and our topic of discussion today is\xa0An African American and Latinx History of the United States.\xa0\nFrom\xa0Beacon Press:\n\u201cIncisive and timely, this bottom-up history, told from the interconnected vantage points of Latinx and African Americans, reveals the radically different ways that people of the diaspora have addressed issues still plaguing the United States today, and it offers a way forward in the continued struggle for universal civil rights.\u201d